Care home closures set to rise as funding crisis bites

Care home operators, trade unions and charities have been telling Theresa May for months that the care home industry is in crisis and needs help.
Last week, May got her sternest warning yet – the chairs of three influential Commons committees urged the prime minister to deal with the “immense challenge” of paying for health and social care in the future.
Social care crisis: MPs put May under pressure to act fast Read more “We are calling for a new political consensus to take this forward,” Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston of the health committee, Labour’s Meg Hillier of the public accounts... read more

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